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heartbrake-hotel · 4 months

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TIME FOR A WIP TAG GAME 💫

rules: in a new post, post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

oh nooo exposed by smitty for my ridiculous doc names.. how could you DO this to meee 😭 dfghs but thanks for the tag darlin @prompted-wordsmith.!!

(tagged on my main but i thought i'd go ahead and post here instead... if i posted all of my wips for every fandom, we'd be here a month 🤭)

my naming conventions are notably all either coded nonsense only comprehensible to me, or song lyrics that are not, in fact, from the song i Actually titled the fic with.! it got so ridiculous i made a spreadsheet to keep track of their shorthand names, their Real Actual Titles, and their summaries. just so i could always find right what i was looking for. i love to cross-reference ! three cheers for color-coding ! 🎉 luckily for me, said doc came in veryyy handy when it came to copy/pasting for this tag game 😂😂

daddy? sorry, da-

i get no help around this goddamn house

this is the Real t&s

he was the congregations vagrant

cry about it, fucker

the saints we see are all made of gold

all the small things

lover's lover's alibi

he's the one to call (dr. feelgood)

my middle name is miseryyy

ho ho hopefully

this is NOT feederism it is cARETAKING

who do you love

what breed is he just a little guy

toxic las vegas

achy breaky head

catch a falling star💫

being weird together is a love language

oscars flop era

9 to 5

go out by the oak leaf

motorpsyche 🏍️

ive beaten the orange camaro

ginger snapped 🐺

vacation all ive ever wanted

polk salad booty is this anything

some of these have been in the works for YEARS, like.. since the movie actually came out.. i started writing two days after i got home from the theater the first time oOP look y'all know me alright the likelihood any of these will actually make it to posting on this blog is,, uh. Slim !! ngl it's pretty slim. i have wips from over a decade ago that STILL don't feel done enough to publish 🙈 but these in particular are very near and dear to my heart and i'd love to gauge y'all's interest anyway.! so fire away, ask me anything, i love to talk and am always down to gush 👍

tagging: @whositmcwhatsit, @thatbanditqueen, @be-my-ally, @mooodyblue, @vintagepresley, @floralcyanide, @whatstruthgottodowithit,@dreamingofep, @ooihcnoiwlerh, @suraemoon, @vintageshanny, uhhh i panicked at the length of this list and don't know who else writes around here and is left to tag, but pleaseeee take this as an open invitation to join in if you want!! i'd love to see everyone's systems 🥰🥰 and of course no pressure if you don't 👌

#tag game #blurb #the ideas for many of these came from other fics in this fandom as well.!!#MANY #old ones especially and some by authors who arent active anymore !#...like i said ive been writing these for a loooong time #srsly the a/ns i left in my drafts are like time capsules in and of themselves #so pleaseeee ask me questions so i can rave abt those original inspo fics dfgh #if u werent around in the beginning id love to name drop some of these classics #and if u WERE we can reminisce.! 🥰

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playstacean · 3 years

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💭 + pitfalls/flaws you often see in writing redemption arcs/(examples if you want to talk about those) ?

oh this is a great topic to discuss!

i honestly feel that the "redemption arc" as a whole has become really overused, quite frankly, not very well done anymore. thats not to say there wasnt bad redemption arcs before now, because there definitely were, but i feel that with the 21st century era of media and "fandom culture" the trope has gone completely downhill.

naturally, i have to mention avatar: the last airbender here. like its pretty much law at this point if youre gonna talk about redemption arcs. as much as i love the show and believe that zukos redemption arc was (mostly) well written, i feel like the arc himself has ruined the mindsets of pretty much every 25-30-year-old fandom nerd on the planet. and a lot of said fandom nerds actually completely misunderstood what made zukos arc and general character so compelling in the first place. instead of seeing that a character must overcome their past trauma as well as atone for their actions, they just saw "if the villain is hot (which is problematic in its own way to apply to zuko because, hint hint, hes a minor) and has feelings other than rage then they should be completely forgiven for their actions".

to me, for a redemption arc to be good, it must contain certain things besides just "the character realizes they were wrong and says sorry":

- they dont expect everyone to forgive them instantly or demonize people for not forgiving them

- similarly, not everyone forgives them at all, let alone instantly

- they are held accountable for their actions, which includes rightful criticism of said actions by other characters

- they take initiative to unlearn the hatred they once had as well as actively give back to the people they hurt

- this is just my personal opinion as well but honestly, in my opinion it works best if they are a victim in their own right. they have to be sympathetic in a way besides just that theyre sad. again, zuko proves to be an example of how this works, since he was a victim of child abuse and was taught to believe that his actions are wrong against his own will. i dont wanna see someone who chose to be evil when they have every opportunity to be good (looking at you, kyle ron).

- they must put in effort! legitimate effort! not just not doing bad things, not just saying theyre sorry, but putting in legitimate effort to not be horrible!

again, most of the time, redemption arcs do not have any of these qualities, let alone all of them. mostly because, like i said, a lot of the people writing a lot of modern media were fans of avatar or star wars or whatever who never really thought critically about it, and are now trying to recreate the same magic the show once had in their own creations to no avail. not all of them of course, but a big chunk of them. some of the worst examples of this are from media i like, and some that i dislike: endeavors redemption in bnha (which i liked in 9th grade but no longer do, thank god), kylo rens """redemption""" (if you could even call it that) in the star wars sequels, and lugers redemption in amulet by kazu kibuishi (which is actually a really great graphic novel series that ive loved since i was young and highly recommend! lugers redemption is honestly the only thing i have any problem with in the books). these all miss the point of how a redemption arc can be impactful and be used to show how to take accountability for ones actions.

this isnt to say there arent good redemption arcs nowadays either! most of them are from smaller content creators though, especially ones written by marginalized people. i wont go too far into this, as i only have experience with these things in some areas and ive decided that i would rather not talk about my own trauma where the whole internet can see. but basically, what im saying is that people need to understand how and why a redemption arc would work, as well as the message the author is trying to send. because, whether people like it or not, all media has a message and an impact.

#asks #thank you so much for sending this!#also a note on zuko: they should have had him dissolve the monarchy and decolonize the earth kingdom and water tribes #which honestly seems more in-character for him too?#but i dont know #the writers for this show swap between being brilliant and being complete idiots with no critical thinking skills constantly #anyway my avatar criticisms are for another day haha #though youre free to ask me about them too!

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